catsay
August 12, 2018, 6:07pm
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I’m guessing by HD 4000 you mean the ATi Radeon HD4000 series. I also have an ATi Radeon HD4890 2GB in a test system on the side here.
If so h264 decoding is possible with that via VA-API for mesa.https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration
So first run vainfo in a terminal and post what it prints out. If it’s not available you might have to install va-api/libva for radeon mesa.
This is what you should see if hardware video decoding is supported:
Ignore the x-server comment, i just quickly ran that command over ssh.
Now the first thing that has to be said is that, linux & chromium/ chrome on linux is not particularly straight forward with hardware accelerated video decoding.
If you visit the youtube.com/html5 video page you should see something like this:
If you can confirm for me that all those boxes are ticked blue then we can continue.
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